Dr. Bodenbender's Research

Dr. Bodenbender works in several areas of paleontology. His current focus is on Jurassic dinosaurs preserved near Shell, Wyoming.  He is currently conducting laboratory studies of dinosaur fossils during the summers, and supervises students doing independent study of dinosaur bones during the school year.  Recent work has focused on using digital photogrammetry to make 3-D computer models of dinosaur bones and other objects.  He also has long-standing interests in using stratigraphic data to help infer evolutionary relationships, studying the evolution of patterns of crystal orientations in fossil echinoderm skeletons, and using GIS to understand fossil distributions in the Michigan Basin.